Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-31
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Gossip.
The Circuit Court of st. Louis hasl
denied petition for the incorporation
of . faith cure college in that city.
Meissonier is said to be almost
friendless because Of his quarrelsome
disposition. His health, also, is now
bad.
Jay Could has been asked to build a
new church on the spot up in the
Catskills where used to stand the vel
low church of his boyhood's memory
the church where his father was a
deacon and sermons lasted from Sun
day sunrise till Sunday sunset.
Mr.. Swinburne, it is announced, is
about to publish a protest against
what he consideres excessive hero
worship Of Walt. Whitman. This
essay, which he entities "Whit-
mania," will appear in August in The
F0rtsaiqhtly Rerieg. Mr.. Swinburne
is understood to deny Mr.. whitman's
claim to high place as poet, though
conceding to him the possession OF in
tellectusl power and recognizing the
originality and individuality Of his
character.
s.Bovs. will be the next man killed
ON this road" (" sand Trackman James
Delaney, Of the Santa Ee road, on
Thursday last. when two tramps were
manx}ed. His prediction was real
ized. Just before nightfall on Friday
he was caught between tracks on a
trestle by two trains, and in attempt
ing to escape fell head foremost on the
rail. He was decapitated instantly,
while his body was thrown upon the
other track and torn into shreds.
An ingenious person has found a
new variation on the finger-bowl
theme in the shape of two tiny gold
watering pots, which are filed with
water and passed around to the
guests, who shower their fingers with
them. In the East it requires three
servants to perform this arduous duty
-one to carry the bowl, one to bear
the towels for the fingers, and third
to pour the rose-water from the grace
full ever for which the watering pots
are q substitute.
Gen. Grant once saidto Harry Wat
kins, the actor, on the occasion of his
first visit to Charleston, s. c., after
the war, that he found he could al.
ways fraternize with the men who
had done the fighting, but he could
not always get along with Those who
had not gone to the field of battle, ant
who, since the war were inclined t
be very demonstrative in their talk
"Old soldiers, he added, ''always re
spect each other, although formerl,
antagonists, and soon can understand
each other"
A novel bath was witnessed in Lo
Angeles yesterday. A father had sta
toned his whole family of children OF
the front lawn in order, from tn,
shortest to the tallest, each. of then
clothed in a big towel, and when al
was ready the hose was turned on
while the youngsters danced with de
light. After fifteen minutes brisk an
plication the herd was driven to tn
back of the house, where they wer
dried and redressed. EYES," said tn
paterfamilias, CHATS the way do il
and you see it saves an immens
amount Of scrubbing."
Mr.. B. o. M. De Beck writes as fol
lows in an exchange: 81 make it
rule always to skip dog and snak
stories in the newspapers, nevertheless
feel myself willing to inflict one Of
the public, because know it to b
true, and it is remarkable one,
think. have dog of the sette
species, kind not noted for thei
pugnacious propensities. NV dog
however, enters a fight very freely
and evidently without givin
the probable outcome of j
serious consideration. Encoun
ters in the past in which he has reg
ularly engaged only to be worsted
were with couple of my neighbors
dogs. Whenever he passes the hous
of either of these neighbors now, ant
when accompanied by a male adult
he goes out into the street and gets
large stone in his mouth, which h
brings and offers to his, apparently s
considered, body guard. He neve
goes through the maneuver If it is
lady or child he is with"
1t is a sight, says the New Yor
Times, to see the ratcatcher arriv
at the hotel at midnight. He doe
not register and generally enters b
the side or servants door. He carrie
a bull's-eye lantern and bag in on
hand, or he may strap the light to
belt,- while in the other he wields
pair of tongs. He descends to tn
lower regions of the larder, the store
room and kitchen, all now dark an
deserted. The ratcatcher utters lo'
whistle or squeak, which is th
intimation of one rat to tn
others that he has found goo
nibbling, and all the rodents ru
out from their hiding places in th
direction of the familiar and welcom
sound, and, dazing them by the glar
of the lantern, the man picks them u
with his tongs and drops them int
his bag with such agility that seldor
any escape. Blinded and paralyze
by the light only the isolated ones al
tempt to run, and these are readil
captured. The rat-catcher visits tn
hotel once or twice week, and tn
same one is employed by severa
houses. 1t is whispered that he sell
the rats to the Chinese restaurants
but he denies the insinuation. HI
saws he sells the hides, which he prop
erly cures and stretches.
Queen Marguerite, Of Italy, posses
ses coral necklace which she alway
wears day and night. If the Queer
wears q dress with which the ornamen
does not harmonic she keeps he
necklace on, although hidden. Th'
following story is told n connection
with the necklace: Five years ago tn,
italian Crown Prince Victor Emman
uel was out walking in Venice will
his tutor. He noticed some corals in
jewelers. widow which pleased hin
varv much. "I shall buy those TO